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Anti-ISIS coalition falling short, says Canada PM

Published 2015-08-31, 12:32 p/m
© Reuters. Anti-ISIS coalition falling short, says Canada PM

OTTAWA, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Canada's Prime Minister Stephen
Harper said on Monday the U.S.-led coalition's campaign against
Islamic State was not doing as well as had been hoped in Syria
and parts of Iraq.
Harper also said Canada, one of the nations helping Iraq to
fight the group also known as ISIS, would need "a long and
sustained strategy" with its international partners against
Islamic State, which controls large parts of northern and
western Iraq.
Around 70 Canadian special forces troops are working with
Kurdish peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq. Six Canadian
fighter bombers are also attacking Islamic State positions in
Iraq and Syria.
"The intervention has had the effect of largely stopping the
advance of ISIS, particularly in the north of Iraq and to some
degree in other parts of Iraq and Syria, not maybe as much as
we'd liked," Harper told reporters during an event on Canada's
election campaign.
Polls show Harper's ruling Conservatives are trailing the
left-leaning New Democrats, who have promised to withdraw
Canada's forces from the coalition.
"To protect our country we are going to have to have a long
and sustained strategy and work with our international partners
and that is what we are doing," said Harper, who accuses his
political rivals of being too soft in the fight against terror.

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